#nyd rambles

[nyd-needs-cuddles]

TSUKASA AND JUN'S TENSION????? IS SO FUCKING THICK????? LIKE WHERE'S MY FELLOW YAOI FANS AT?????!?????

[cornerihaunt]

can’t stop thinking about new year’s day . hold on to the memories . hold on to the days when you were mine . idk idk idk

[achingly-shy]

it's kind of hard to think of reputation not closing with new year's day

[ceruleanpunch]

not going to make my 50 books goal (I think I originally put it at 15?? 25???) but I'll at least get to over 40 which is pretty neat (vs 7 last year and 3 the year before)

[pearl-kite]

The week after Thanksgiving was miserable at work, playing catch-up after the holiday

The week after Christmas was miserable after work, playing catch-up after the holiday

Guess what week I get to start today

[fiveredlights]

WIP GAME

Rules: in a new post, post the names of all the files in your wip folder regardless of how non descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet and tell us about it!

i’m sad that i can’t write and i need to ramble about my fics. so i’m gonna change it cause my names give you 0 descriptions, i’m also gonna post the summary as well

(first 8 are set in the glitter on the floor universe)

galex social media

landoscar social media

hold on to the memories they will hold on to you (direct sequel to glitter on the floor)

ACTUAL NYD bonus fic (the prequel fic)

bonus fic reimagined (max verstappen and las vegas 2025)

don't read the last page (las vegas 2025 through texts etc)

squeeze my hand three times in the back of the taxi (3 major events in that universe)

francesca (daniel, max and 2022)

you are sick, you're married and you might be dying but you're holding me like water in your hands (moon song verse)

lmao daniel retirement fic

you're on another path whilst i'm stuck in the past (was a post ausgp 2024 quali fic that's merged into a post japgp2024 race fic)

max daniel farm (max takes his threat that he made during melbourne interviews and shows up at daniel's farm during the summer break)

[chickawah23]

Lyrical parallels sky/sun/night/day

In It’s Nice to Have a Friend Taylor says “Light pink sky, up on the roof. Sun sinks down, no curfew. Twenty questions, we tell the truth. You've been stressed out lately, yeah, me too. Something gave you the nerve to touch my hand.”

This moment in the song is where it turns from friendship to something more and she sets the time of day as just as the sun starts going down when there is a pink cast falling over the sky. And her and this friend are playing 20 questions and eventually their hands touch and we assume time passes to the point where the sky has gotten darker.

Then in Cornelia Street they are also on the roof at the turning point in this relationship. “But then you called, showed your hand. I turned around before I hit the tunnel. Sat on the roof, you and I…Barefoot in the kitchen sacred new beginnings. That became my religion.”

Then in Maroon she’s telling you by the time she looked up at the sky again it was maroon. After sharing this transformative moment with this person who she described as “The one I was dancing with in New York no shoes. Looked up at the sky and it was maroon.”

So the sky went from light pink when things began to change from a friendship vibe to something more. Then time passed and drinks were drank and things took another step forward.

Then comes Down Bad where she says she’s staring at the sky begging for this person to come back and get her. “Starin' at the sky, come back and pick me up. Fuck it if I can't have us. I might just not get up, I might stay down bad.” She uses the imagery of an alien abduction but the staring at the sky also fits with night time loneliness longing.

Then I think about the signal in the sky in ivy “Crescent Moon coast is clear.” Where they could only meet up after dark see also willow. And they only existed in the dark or in her dreams. But she was still long for light.

And then I started thinking about the time of day described in Afterglow where it is now past midnight, the morning hours but still dark out where she specifically describes the light as ultraviolet. Where she’s singing about how close to daybreak they are makes it easier to fight for this love and how much it sucks seeing her person depressed or down bad: “It's so excruciating to see you low. Just wanna lift you up and not let you go. This ultraviolet morning light below. Tells me this love is worth the fight, oh.”

Then we think about the 3AM tracks on midnights which on their own feel like the madness one goes through with thoughts while waiting for daylight or a new day.

Then we think about New Year’s Day and Daylight which are what she’s longing to get to. The resolve of Daylight is that she sees it coming. It’s not there yet but it’s getting brighter. And for NYD she’s singing about choosing midnights right now but in the end cleaning up the mess with her person on New Year’s Day. During the day.

Idk I know I’m rambling I just feel like the imagery of the sky and where she is trapped in night time or in rain snow or cloud covered weather or eclipses and how it makes her depressed is amazing.

And all of these songs where she’s searching for sunlight Ugh! Fresh out the slammer “for just one glimpse of sunshine.” Freedom felt like summer then on the coast. The sun burns her heart and the sands of time hurts her feelings.

But she wants the sun to shine and search for shade which controls her own exposure to the light rather than having some outside force block the sun for her.

And ugh I just love thinking about this sky/sun/night/day imagery so much. ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

[whiskeyafterdark]

ooh, our taste in music is so different <3 I'll give those a listen. please continue to ramble I find it quite cute whis <3 🐰

fair warning MIW is heavy metal sooooo, I also dig bad omens, in this moment and New Year’s Day. All incredible bands. Whore is a personal favorite of mine my ITM and Angel eyes by NYD is good aswell.

[backtodecember]

this way this parallel between komh and inthaf lives in my mind rent free 

with all these nights we're spending up on the roof with a school girl crush

light pink sky up on the roof sun sinks down, no curfew

[hazeldough]

I FEEL SO STUPID I THOUGHT KIRYU WAS A CANCER, NOT A GEMINI GODDDDDDD

[nyd-needs-cuddles]

WE FUCKING WON WE'RE GETTING AN ANIME ADAPTATION!!!

[moochaeng]

the order of these 5 songs will never fail to give me whiplash

[cardsharksplayingames]

“I'll be there if you're the toast of the town babe or if you strike out and you're crawling home”

“And you know that I'd swing with you for the fences, sit with you in the trenches”

Please excuse me while I go cry

[comebackbehere]

hello I’ve been watching the rep tour movie since 5pm 

[mallowstep]

hi! sorry if this is a weird question, but are you alright with minors interacting w/ your mistynight fics?

my rambles and thoughts figuring this out are below the cut.

minors isn't a helpful label: the difference between a 12yo and a 17yo is the problem, not the difference between a 17yo and an 18yo.

i initially said blanket yes to everything but "nothing you do can slow the rising tides," but in writing this, i've changed my mind. do note my rambles will reflect that. i want to publish my thoughts, as messy as they are, because they are relevant.

i'm okay with older teens (16+) reading "as the water rushes in." i'm not okay with anyone younger than that reading it.

(if you've already read it, and you're younger than that, it's okay. i didn't say anything until now because frankly i hadn't thought about it until now. please, just don't read any further.)

now, to ramble for a bit:

so like...do i want all minors interacting w nothing you do? no. it's...it's not rated for a reason. i don't want a 12yo interacting with it! i don't want a 12yo reading it! i don't want! it's above t!

but do i have a problem with a 16yo, 17yo, reading it? not really, no. i'm ngl, i'd rather they read that then some of what i read growing up. i still don't want them interacting w it, in the sense that i don't want them to comment on it and kudos it, but i don't care if they're just reading it.

y'know this minors/no minors is very b&w thinking that i dislike. i don't have the emotional energy to think about this every time i write something, so i usually CHOOSE to draw a hard line, but like.

sometimes things are appropriate for older children, but not young children. other things are appropriate for young teens, but no children. other things are appropriate for older teens. and some things are probably only appropriate for adults. i don't...like this is not a subject i can speak to very well, so like, y'know everyone give me some grace.

i think nyd is somewhere between pg-13 and r. probably closer to an r. this is a hard one to rate which is why i gave up.

so anyway, like, if you haven't read it and are wondering what the fuss is about, the tl/dr is that nyd contains some scenes that are, to put it impolitely, horny as hell. i'll abstain from including examples so the target audience of this post (minors who may want to read it) are not excluded.

i don't know if i can give a conclusive answer? my answer is. i don't honestly know. my answer is if a 16yo or 17yo wants to read it, they can. just please don't kudos on it or comment on it. i don't want anyone younger than that reading nyd. i'm not sure what the rest of the fics will look like, because i haven't written them yet, but assuming the next fic stays at a t, you won't miss any major plot beats in nyd.

i'm...i'm going to end with a quote, and a few last comments. the quote is from the series notes of the collegestuck 'verse, one of my favourite homestuck aus.

Although most of the stories here are rated T, even the T rated stuff may contain themes, in retrospect, that might not be appropriate for people under the age of 16 or so. If you're under 16 and want to read collegestuck, I ask that you either wait until then, or tread very carefully. Everything in this series rated M or E contains overt sexual content. If you are under 18, or in an area where you have to be over 18 (i.e 19, or 21) to consume such content, please wait until you reach the age of majority pertinent to your location.

nyd does not contain overt sexual content, and it's not rated m. i don't mind if anyone over 16 reads it.

but anyone under? no, i don't want that.

and i mentioned...i got to this point and said, "hold on, i changed my mind." this is the point where i went from "blanket yes" to "actually no."

some of the main themes of atwri are 16+. while you might not notice them in something like "just gonna call you mine," they are there, and i actually like --- i don't think i want someone just reading part of the series. like i was going to say yes, but then i thought about it, and it's like...mistyfoot's emotions are really important. not only do i think you weaken the arc if you don't have them, but...

saying "just don't read nyd" doesn't remove the themes, and i think it almost makes them worse? because now it's like --- now it's like, you're getting the subtext but not the text, and then it's like...y'know you're --- it's.

urgh let me start over.

there's a massive gap in maturity between a 14yo and a 16yo. i feel okay about a 16yo reading nyd, because i think they are, in general, mature enough to read that. and okay, there's no way to explain this without saying it directly.

while the scenes in atwri are not metaphors (i.e., i don't write them imagining what is happening is a stand-in for sex), they are still sexual in nature.

(in other words, my intentions are not, "mistyfoot and nightshade are having sex, i'm just not saying it." however, mistyfoot and nightshade's relationship does have a sexual component, and if you can't feel it when you read atwri, i'm not doing my job very well.)

and i sat and thought about not just what i've published but also where i'm going, and i thought of some of the events that will happen, and how things are already being set up in earlier fics.

for a mundane example, in "i want your midnights," mistyfoot warns featherpaw about the dangers of cold water. in "nothing you do can slow the rising tides," mistyfoot is thrown into cold water.

and i just don't feel right about someone reading the set-up and not the payoff. this isn't about story integrity, to be clear, this is about...

it's hard not to be vague and still give a satisfying example. i know the earlier one wrt water doesn't make sense, and that's because it's small.

ig what i'll say is, i don't like what happens to the emotional lines of the story when you take out nyd, and when i think about other fics that you might have to do. it's not that they become different or weaker or anything (although they do), it's that they take on new meanings and tones and suggestions, and i don't like the ideas that promotes.

and it's one thing if someone 16+ decides to skip nyd. i think at that point, you probably have enough emotional maturity to pick out the lines i intend. i do not have that same confidence in a younger teen, and when night and misty are portrayed as being in a healthy relationship, but the story becomes ugly? i don't like that.

if you read through all of that rambling, give yourself a sticker, and let me try to do a summary, if only for my own sake.

in essence,

mistyfoot and nightshade are portrayed, in every instalment, as being a healthy relationship.

"nothing you do can slow the rising tides," along with potential other future scenes, provide very important context to certain themes and emotional lines of atwri, but i am not comfortable with someone under sixteen reading them.

when i stopped to think about what that did to the emotional lines, i started to feel like mistyfoot and nightshade's relationship isn't as healthy as it's portrayed as.

i think someone who's sixteen or older can PROBABLY pick out what i intended, that's subtler subtext or what have you, but i don't have a reasonable level of confidence in anyone younger than that.

so since i don't want anyone younger than sixteen reading what provides that context, i don't want them reading atwri at all.

[agustdomain]

hey! i lost in interest in kpop and all but this came to me the other day. since evermore came out, i was binge listening to most of ts's prev albums. i payed extra attn to new year's day cuz a friend said that it sounded like the prequel to champagne problems. when i listened to nyd, i rmbrd ur mark fic. how long ago was that posted? i can't believe it took me this long to make the connection smh. btw how do u like the new album? i'm a little obsessed tbh.

Acxjkxklnc oh my gosh you don’t know how much excitement just coursed through me to get an ask about taylor. PLEASE let’s chat about her music if you’re up for it. I’d love to hear your thoughts and opinions!  I’m gonna add a line break bc apparently I wanted to write you an essay...

Wow... I am utterly speechless. And you remembered Glow? I AM SO LUCKY. Ugh. Okay so I went back to double check and I posted Glow on 2019′s New Years Day. Random story related to nyd that may or may not entertain you. Sorry if this is a bore. So originally when Reputation came out, I didn’t pay much attention to the song. It was nice but I was more into other songs on that album. Then I watched her perform it live and it transformed my entire opinion on the song. It immediately became a favorite and she has this way of painting an entire movie across your eyelids, pulling emotions out of you that you only experience in real life. She’s a mastermind storyteller. 

So that ^ is how Glow was born. A whole story about finding a lover on New Years but not being able to express that you want to love them not just in that one blissful moment. 

Okay this is a longggg ask. Apologies! I have to answer your question, though. I think Evermore is so gorgeous. It reminds me of a movie soundtrack. I think it’s a strong sister album for folklore. Folklore is really set the bar and I was nervous to see what evermore would be. But I think it stands on its own and the two give off very different vibes. So far, my favorites are Gold Rush (all bc of that one catchy part “Everybody wants you, everybody wonders what it would be like to love you- walk past, quick brush” LIKE UGH HOW DARE SHE), long story short, closure, and evermore. What about you? I rambled on so much geez. But this is so exciting to me.